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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:

> On 15 Oct 04 at 16:19, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
>
> > > This file will actually be needed. I did not check, whether mutt
> > > reads it or not. Paths of configuration files can be passed to mutt
> > > either at compile time (I suppose the three locations mentioned
> > > above), or by command line parameters or in .muttrc. The script
> > > mu starts mutt with the ~/Mail/.muttrc. You may check whether in
> > > ~/Mail/.muttrc there is a line that gives the correct path to an
> > > existing mime.types file.
> >
> > ..mime.types is also in ~/Mail/.muttrc.  Did your installation script put it
> > there?  (I did installpkg).  If so, you could rewrite the script to put it
> > where Mutt expects to find it.  Mutt seems to work okay as it is though.  I
> > don't have Mutt on this computer so cannot check right now what is in
> > .muttrc.  I don't think this file is the problem with binary attachments, it
> > is .mailcap not having .wav and .ppm in it.
>
> I think for BL installation it is the best way to have all
> configuration files in ~/Mail. I do not want to change Mutt's
> "expectation" (this would be possible when compiling the program),
> because the program would be incompatible with other mutt binaries and
> people who have already been used to run mutt on their system
> will not understand what is going on. I have no installation script,
> but include a customized .muttrc that is given as a parameter by
> the 'mu' script and contains the location of all the other
> configuration files.
What you did works fine.

> > The F key setup seems easy, but I was asking why you set the default to be
> > 8859-2 not -1. I have not had time to read all the instructions, just enough
> > to get this going on a basic level.  I am new to mutt.
>
> If I did not make a mistake, the default is 8859-1. But as soon as
> you press either F3 or F4 it changes to 8859-2 or KIO8-R and can be
> reset only if you manually edit the .lang file (F2). This may be
> very confusing for users who have accidentally pressed F3, but do not
> even know what iso-8859-2 is about. How to improve this? Should F2 be
> used to reset the default?

I just checked the .lang file and it is dated Oct 4 and says
#set send_charset.....iso-8859-1
set send_charset.....iso-8859-2
I think the second of these is the default.  This is BL3.
Probably nobody would have a problem with this unless they were trying to 
type upper-ASIII characters in their mail.

> > I have not checked mutt-bl2 for whether you used links-0.93 there (instead
> > of 90).  In the mutt-bl3 package that I downloaded recently you refer
> > specifically to links-0.90 (in .muttrc, I think it was).  So I don't think
> > you are using that small 'links' script in your packages.
>
> No because I made the add-on packages for the BL distribution.

> > I just checked and links2 for BL3 works just fine in text mode so you
> > could use it without X.  Why do you say 'text links' (0.90?) is better? I
> > have not found anything that 0.90 does better than 2.  I notice that
> > Steven's package rewrites the 'links' alias to point to links2 -g.
>
> In that case I will change the mailcap line in mutt-bl3.tgz, too.
>
> > You could include links2 and links2 -g as options (with #) in .muttrc.
>
> This would be even better as long as bl3 still comes with the
> console links as default browser.
>
> Christof
>
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